The Crunchies Awards are often called the Oscars of the tech world — though the fashion may not be quite as glamorous. The eighth annual event Thursday at Davies Symphony Hall was certainly a who’s who of Silicon Valley celebrity. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, Salesforce.com founder Marc Benioff, venture capitalist Ron Conway and Tinder co-founder Sean Rad all showed up. Uber won best overall startup of 2014 and Benioff was CEO of the year. But with rents still skyrocketing in San Francisco, not everyone was willing to hand out awards for tech — or nice ones, anyway. For the second year, protesters outside — this time in pig masks — doled out “Crappy Awards.” There, Uber was tops again, winning the tongue-in-cheek labor fairness award.

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